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Farewell to a Chassidic Luminary

A large crowd showed up in the Brooklyn heat for the levaya of Rabbi Yosef Wineberg OBM, an outstanding chossid, scholar and activist. Photos

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The Wineberg Family
June 29, 2012 1:17 pm

To the whole family: Hamokom yenacheim eschem b’soich shaar aveilei tsion virusholayim.
Mordechai, Tova and Yiska Sandbrand

MRS EVELYNE HELPER
June 29, 2012 11:06 am

Senior Rabbi Wineberg will be missed here in south africa. we loved his visits and his brillant stories. what a chassidic giant !!
to Rabbi Levi Winberg, Fraidy and the winberg family, Hamakom yenachem eischem. we think of you and are with you in our hearts.

Hamokoim Yenachem Eschem...
June 28, 2012 11:56 pm

Rabbi Wineberg continues to have a profound impact on me until this day. A few vignettes: When he would come to Cape Town on a mission for the yeshiva, he would spend long hours with me walking along the beach front recounting stories, as only he could, of the Baal Shem Tov and many other tzadikkim. It was one of the greatest gifts he could have given – the gift of time… He would usually bring the same gift, a little pen-shaped flashlight. Oh how I would treasure that! The lesson: The smallest gesture, if done sincerely, has a great… Read more »

O NO
June 28, 2012 6:01 pm

bd”e

chaval al deavdin velo mishtakchin
June 28, 2012 5:19 pm

The last of the “9”. After them they threw out the mold. Such giants from the “alte heim” can not be duplicated. They all merited arichus yomim. Vehkitzu veranenu shoichnei ofor
veheim besoichom.
May we see the geulah shleimah bekarov, vehokitzu veranenu shochnei ofor vehem besochom

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